On 6/19/07, Slim Virgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/19/07, Gracenotes wikigracenotes@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/19/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
Slim Virgin wrote:
Yet we persist in doing it here -- and worse, because we have no idea who our "menial employees"
are,
or whether we have one person filling several jobs -- using the
excuse
that adminship is "no big deal."
Only if we want to create a culture that glorifies article creators and despises maintenance workers ...
Gracenotes, you need to read what you're responding to. Someone else made the analogy of admins and editors to "menial employees." It was just an analogy; it said nothing about article creators v. maintenance workers. The hyperbole has to stop, because it's just an attempt to stoke things up.
I am aware that my paragraph is somewhat out of context, and is more meant as a general response to the so-called "culture" for which you've recently been advocating. But it's a piece of satire (so, like A Modest Proposal, it naturally employs hyperbole), and I hope to heaven that you realize that. Or else I shall get a wall to bang my head against. (Figuratively.) It's meant to intellectually stoke things up, to get people to *think* about things; I have talked to some editors who have indicated that they sense the atmosphere in some parts of Wikipedia discourages original thinking about extra-content situations. Now, if you can identify why I think this culture is a bad idea, congratulations, you're off to a super start! (Or you can claim to be confused.)
Cheers, Gracenotes